Art for Autism! "Artism is an independent organisation working towards raising money for the National Autistic Society charity through the use of Art. We will gladly accept donations from artists of any kind to sell/auction off for the charity. All proceeds go to The National Autistic Society."

I came across this website, through Albotas. I'm posting this to serve as reminder to myself to try to create a piece of work for them, as I've known many autistic people throughout my life. Very kind, loving, and friendly. :)

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Man decorates basement with $10 worth of SharpieWhen Charlie Kratzer started on the basement art project in his south Lexington home, he was surrounded by walls painted a classic cream. Ten dollars of Magic Marker and Sharpie later, the place was black and cream and drawn all over.

Link Update: Here's the article this was originally posted in, for a full 360 view.

Meet Rick. A young Canadian man who has decided that he wants to live out the rest of his life as a zombie. He has spent over 24 hours of his life being tattooed on over half of his body, including his face and hands, to look like a decaying corpse. Simply amazing. He sat down with Bizarre Magazine for an interview and photo shoot that is a must see.

How do you sum up your philosophy of life? You’ve got to respect that everyone’s different and has to do what they’ve got to do. I can’t tell you what to do, you can’t tell me what to do – but we can still get along just great.

Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.

This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.